I don't want to start another argument , I take electronic music very seriously . It's very important to me . Just like painting is very important to an artist . Just like a autoracer might prefer FORD over CHEVY . Everyone has something that is very important to them , everyone does . When I went to college , I was told the same things that were told to Oldschool . Then one day I came across this old recording of Harold Bode ( the guy who made the first vocoder in 1939 ) . I thought it was a very cool sounding piece , it was way ahead of it's time . Harold Bode also biult alot of other electronic music machines . I guess the point is that when anyone says that electronic music got it's official start in the 60s , is wrong , dead wrong , and there ain't no two ways about it . I've spent along time researching this , so far the oldest electronic music record I've found was done in 1939 . I'm still looking , it ain't easy but I have some more leads . The point is that when someone says something that ridiculous , it's like it ignores all the people who were bulding electronic music systems , using and making electronic music long before the 60s. My Uncle ( who is now dead ) worked for RCA from 1943 to 1979 , he designed or helped to design some early electronic music systems . He also worked on the RCA MARK 1 synthesizer in 1951 and the MARK 2 in 1956 . Electronic music was being done not only with samples , but with electronic sound equipment long before the 60s . The 60s already had a huge pallet laid down for them by people like Harold Bode , Vladimir Ussachevski , Pierre Henry , Pierre Shaeffer , Otto Luening , Luc Ferrari , John Cage , Iannis Xenakis just to name a few . That is the truth , the fact that it really started in the 60s is NOT !